Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

The disciplined are free.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.